Monthly archives "April 2015"

The Ethical co-op has so many new and exciting products and projects on the go this week we are going to just jump right in! If you want to quickly find any of the products mentioned in the newsletter then select the tab ‘New and Featured’ at the top of our website. We aim to share as much information as possible about our offerings, and you can click on the ‘More Info’ button to see detailed product information, including ingredients, certification details and best-by dates.

Congratulations to Naturally Organic for obtaining their organic certification from the Control Union. New from Naturally Organic: you can find pink lady apples which you can purchase as a 1kg pack or in a 5kg bulk pack for juicing, table celery, green beans (230g), edible marrow flower pack and Mediterranean cucumbers.

Apples and Their Benefits
Apples are a great addition to juicing as they blend well with nearly any fruit and vegetable and great flavour and sugary joy.

A good source of Vitamin A, Vitamins B and C, amino acids as well as riboflavin and are high in two important phytochemicals: pectin and boron. Enzyme-Rich to Aid Digestion
Great Cleanser (detoxifies by eliminating free radicals and toxins)
Great Energy Source (keeps blood sugar levels up)
Lowers Blood Cholesterol
Excellent Diuretic
Good Antiseptic
Excellent Laxative
Liver Support

Also, new this week are green beans (500g) from SEED, fresh coriander/dhania available from White Mountain and sweetcorn from Kleinjongenskraal.

If you are looking for something sweet why not order some delicious Dark, Milk and White chocolate from Le Chocolatier. Based in Franschoek, Le Chocolatier is offering the finest Quality Organic Swiss Chocolates. No sugar, gluten free and suitable for a paleo or banting diet!

Arriba, Arriba! Andale, Andale!
We have also added some fabulous tortilla corn chips and tortillas from Santa Anna’s. Santa Anna’s started as a once-of stall at the Getaway Show three years ago. After attempting to source quality local tortilla locally, the team eventually settled on producing their own. Santa Anna’s is now a small factory from where they can produce 8000 tortillas a day. They use local organic corn sourced from a biodynamic farm in Fickburg for the tortillas and also produce corn chips that are fried in coconut oil. For a recent article about them http://morethanfood.co.za/piet-marais-an-interview/.

Please send flattened cardboard boxes for our new urban organic farm project in conjunction with Brian Joffin and Toni Khulule from SEED, in Mitchell’s Plain, and Ihata Shelter, in Heideveld, Athlone. We need cardboard boxes as we prepare for our 1 hectare Food Gardening project. The Ihata Shelter exists to help ALL women affected by domestic violence who seek sanctuary by providing a caring, clean and safe shelter with accommodation up to 6 months. At the Ihata Shelter, women are allowed space and time to plan their lives forward through services geared towards empowerment, improved self-respect, independence and recovery, ending with successful community re-integration. Their motto is “Time to heal and tools to grow”. The vegetable garden lies at the heart of healing women. The program is used to help women heal. The garden is small and it is their dream to expand the garden into an organic farm. Director Nuraan Osman: “Each of the lessons taught in gardening, like composting are compared to removing all the waste out of our lives and placing seeds in the ground. This brings hope and joy to the hearts of women.”

A gigantic thank you to our friends at Reliance Compost, http://www.reliance.co.za/, for their massively generous donation of 12 cubes of compost to kick start the project.